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New Ford Escape launching with two new EcoBoost engines with standard Auto Start-Stop

Green Car Congress

The new Ford Escape, being showcased at the Los Angeles Auto Show, is the first Ford vehicle to make Auto Start-Stop standard with either of two EcoBoost engines new to the model—a 1.5-liter A user enables the system through a two-step authentication process designed to protect personal information. liter and 2.0-liter

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

For the 1980s, GM created the X-Cars , Ford offered Fox sedans and American Motors had the Concord. My personal K-Car experience hasn't been as positive. I recall angrily futzing with video codecs in order to watch the file I'd laboriously downloaded of this spoof Aries commercial, circa 2000.

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A Brief History of the Office Cubicle

Cars That Think

“It was basketball season,” Kelley explained to Kristen Gallerneaux , a curator at The Henry Ford (where the AAC pictured below resides ). The Henry Ford The 19-centimeter-diameter globe was indeed just a little smaller than a basketball. Perhaps the maskitball was no match for personal headphones to tune out annoying colleagues.

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What You Need To Know About Pickup EVs

Clean Fleet Report

FYI, the safest EV trucks include Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning, according to the DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the private Institute for Highway Safety. However, modern electric vehicles have had around a 20% failure rate ( The Telegraph ) since 2000, compared to 29% of ICE cars.

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In 1961, the First Robot Arm Punched In

Cars That Think

The Henry Ford Shortly after the cocktail party, the two men founded Unimation, the name a portmanteau of “universal” and “automation,” which Devol had coined when filing his patent. This video from The Henry Ford , in Dearborn, Mich., The first Kawasaki-Unimate 2000 was completed in 1969 and cost 12 million yen per unit.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

An early adopter Sinclair’s first venture into the world of clean energy vehicles came in the early 2000’s when she and her husband purchased a Ford Escape Hybrid, a car they still own today. Formerly in-person and now online during the pandemic, the gatherings are promoted through social media and emails.

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Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI In Hollywood

Cars That Think

First of all, your first example is a person with a brain. And I’m going to name some others like Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford, Meg Ryan like this. Well, all these people— with the exception of maybe Harrison Ford, but all these people really hit it in their 20s. And that stopped in about 2000. I don’t know.

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